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165. Why We Chase Love and Money — And Still Feel Empty
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Ever chased love and money but still felt empty inside?
In this episode of the Spiritual Fitness Podcast, Eric Bigger explores the emotional and spiritual roots of desire, greed, and validation. Through raw personal stories and the wisdom of the Gene Keys, he unpacks how self-love, vulnerability, and spiritual awareness can transform the way we seek fulfillment.
If you're ready to stop chasing and start healing, this one’s for you.
In this episode:
- Vulnerability is powerful — it helps release fear and build self-love.
- Look deeper into your desires — why do you really chase love and money?
- Greed vs. self-love — external validation often hides a lack of self-acceptance.
- Spiritual growth takes practice — tools like meditation and time in nature help.
- Real healing begins with honesty — being your true self creates space for transformation.
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Introduction to Holistic Health
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Welcome to the Spiritual Fitness Podcast. I'm your host, Eric Bigger. And each week, we will explore powerful practices, inspiring stories, and expert insights to guide you on your path to holistic health.
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By blending spirituality and physical wellness, we support you in strengthening your body and soul. Whether you're a seasoned spiritual seeker or just beginning your journey, the Spiritual Fitness Podcast is here to help you unlock your inner potential and live your most vibrant, purposeful life.
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It's miracle season.
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Spiritual fitness, spiritual fitness podcast. I'm your host, Eric Bigger, and I'm back again with another episode.
Exploring Love, Money, and Greed
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And today going to talk about love, money, greed.
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So before we get started, think about these quotes. Money is the root of all evil. You've heard that before, right? Or the love of money is the root of all evil.
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But have you ever heard the greed of money? Or better yet, the greed of love. Today, want to share my vulnerable story about how i got to the root in my being, in my vessel, in my frequency, that I had the womb of the greed of love.
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Personal Story: Balloon Incident and Self-Discovery
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So what triggered or what gave me the intention to talk about the greed of love?
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So these last few weeks, it's been a very revealing week. I think we had the Sagittarius full moon a few weeks ago, and it was all about patterns, ending patterns within your cycle, ending patterns within your life, old ways, old paradigms, old habits that don't serve your highest good.
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And I was aware that there's a pattern that keeps coming up, and beneath it all is fear, right? Fear of loss, fear Fear of not being seen, fear of not being liked, accepted, all these things.
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So before I get into the details of that, I want to share a vulnerable story that allowed me to open up that part of myself to those I love and the people I trust. So over maybe three weeks ago, i was with my girlfriend and we were celebrating her brother's birthday and we had to blow balloons.
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Blah, blah, blah. Everyone blows up balloons. So as we're there, she's there, her brother's partner's there, it's me. And we're all blowing up balloons.
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But guess what? I've never blown up a balloon in my life. And I know you're listening like, what? Yeah. So my girlfriend's what you mean don't know how blow up balloons? I was like, that's don't know how to blow up a balloon.
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She's like, stop, you're playing. And then her brother's girlfriend was like, stop, you stop playing, blow it up. And so they blowing up balloons. So mind you, I'm the man in the house. I'm there helping setting up and I literally cannot blow up balloon.
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And I felt so powerless. Because in that moment, I couldn't act as if nothing was happening. So I felt low. I felt powerless. I felt shameful that, damn, like you can't even blow a balloon yet.
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You know all these things. You have all this knowledge. You've been on TV. You've written books. But you cannot blow up a balloon. Those are my thoughts, talking to myself, judging myself. So then her brother comes home and we're blowing a balloon. He's like, I'm like, nah.
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He's a kid out I've never heard that a day in my life. So in that moment, he was joking and he started blowing like the balloon. And he was like, hey, use your core. Like breathe.
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You do breath work, right? Breathe. And so I started to kind of take it in listening, and I blew up the balloon. and I was just like... wow So weeks after that, I had a conversation with my girlfriend. I like, man, you need't understand how healing that was for me.
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And it was emotional.
The Greed of Love and Self-Love
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And I didn't know how to say it in that moment, but me allowing me to be seen for the embarrassment of that moment, even though she didn't know in that moment, but what it felt like, I was able to release that energy to acknowledge that truth of where I was at.
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to get to the point of where I'm at today about this episode. And I think in life, we put things on a pedestal. We damn sure put money on a pedestal, and I know we put love, right?
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So a lot of times when we're out, we're chasing money. Beneath that is something else we really want. And I think in most cases, it's to be seen, to be felt, to be heard, right? Like I think it's all incompetent in that moment.
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And then you get people who get all the money, but yet they're happy, they're not fulfilled. They're still complaining because at the root of that, because I believe in root work, not branch work, there's something that needs to come up that needs to be revealed, that needs acknowledgement, that needs awareness. And most times it's a blind spot, right?
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Like for me, it was deeply unconscious. It was a wound that's been there since a child. Definitely was a blind spot. And through that conversation, I did a never about meditation and meditation.
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I started being nature more these last few weeks and I was just connecting to myself. i'm like And there's something called the Gene Keys by Richard Rudd. And I was reading up the keys within my chart.
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And the Gene Keys is like a system, like human design meets astrology, but more it's more like integral, like more detailed, the details of your soul and your energy archetype.
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And one of these keys, I think it's Gene Key 54, has this notion of love, the greed of love and money. So when I started processing, as I'm contemplating, as I'm listening, and I'm just really just trying to be present to try to get everything out of me so I can understand how I can proceed forward in my life, in my body, in my mind, everything at the root of my life is because I've been greedy for love.
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Now, the question is, everybody wants love. I think everybody deserves love. But for me, because i didn't experience the feelings of love as a child, I gave so much of it.
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So I was willing to do any and everything, of course, in a healthy way for love. Get good grades, be nice to people, be kind, people please, overgive.
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over-nurturing, take care people, be successful, look a certain way, all because I wanted love. I just wanted to feel it. So in my space, in my time in Hollywood, was making money, I was successful, I was doing these things. I'm like, why do I feel like none of this stuff matters?
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I got these things, I have this success, I've done this, I've done that, I accomplished these goals, yet I don't feel whole, I feel empty, I feel off, I don't feel in alignment.
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And it's because the love I was seeking from these things, these containers, these spaces, these places, these platforms outside of myself is because I wanted love that I never received.
Transformational Work and Authenticity
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Not from others, because that's part of it, but I never received love from myself. So that pattern, that paradigm, the greed of love, I was willing to go out in the world, become something, do these things, be these things all for love, right?
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All for love. and then realize I am love and that I had to love myself with no approval from anyone else. And when I got to that, it was like it alchemized me and released this energy into the cosmos where wow I got to talk about this because how many of us right now where you are, I don't care how much money you got your bank account, how much love you have in your life, success.
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What is the root of our life? Is it the greed of love? Is it the greed of money? It could be the greed of fear or the greed of looking good. I don't know. But i'm so I'm sharing this story, this vulnerable part of my journey, because I don't want you to live your alone.
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if you can't from a false anchor of reality because of something you're lacking. So this is why when people get in relationships, like, oh, I met the love of my life. And then after a few years, they're happy because that person is not loving the real you, is loving the part of you that you presented to them to like.
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So I know in my line of work, in my line of business, when people come to me, I help them transform to the person they truly are. You can be real, you can be raw, you can cry, you can be upset, you can be angry.
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you can hold I can hold space in a way that's so raw and intimate that people feel safe to be however they need to be. So when you come in my vibration, you get the PhD of you.
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You get to transform and expand to who you truly are and who you're meant to be in this lifetime. And it's such an ironic that my clients, my life is all a mirror, but I wasn't allowing myself to hold space for myself.
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And I feel like that was the layer of my being that I was holding on to because of fear. i didn't want to be embarrassed. I didn't want feel powerless. I was shamed and guilty about it because I was like, if people know that I'm weak in this area or this is where all my stuff is coming from, then who am I? Am
Overcoming Fear Through Vulnerability
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I imposter?
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So I say all that to say, is because we don't have to live this false life anymore. We don't have to live for things. There's something David Goggins said is like, you must not have a purpose and still live life.
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And when you do that becomes your purpose. If we're always living life for a purpose, That's not true authenticity. That's not true purpose. Because if I'm always looking for a purpose to be or do something, I'm not really living.
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I'm just existing. So what do I mean by that? The outcome of your life shouldn't be because of money. The outcome of your life shouldn't be because of love. The outcome of life shouldn't be because you want to be like or you want this material things.
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It should just be that you're here having a human experience to evolve to the person You're called to be in this lifetime. One of the ways I think the truest way to get to that is get to the root of your suffering, get to the root of your truth that you don't want people to know, your vulnerability.
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I'm being vulnerable right now about a story that's present in my life because it's alchemizing my soul to step into a higher version of myself where there's no fear in my energy field.
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Because there's something called energy leakage. You can have all this positivity, you can be great, you can maze, but in the shadow part of that good energy is some fear. Because you don't want to show a part of yourself because of fear, embarrassment, shame, guilt But I'm here to tell you, whatever you're fearing right now, no matter what it is, if you can find a space in your life, because my girlfriend was there, my cousin, these two people held space in me and they didn't judge me and they've made me feel safe.
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Whatever that part in your being in your life where you afraid to open up that door, that darkness, or that space you closed off because of the past of years, Get someone, a therapist, a friend, someone close that's not going to judge you, that loved you for you, and not what you can do for them, that you can share that experience. You can share that truth so you can release that energy out of your body. You can release that energy out of your mind.
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You can release that energy into the stratosphere and then that fear doesn't have power over you. Now I know having a wound of the greed of love, I'm not greedy for love because I am love.
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I love myself unconditionally no matter what. So I don't have to go do things to get love anymore. Or I get to ask myself when I'm doing something, what am I doing this for? Am I doing this to be light? Am I doing this to be love?
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Am I doing this for money? What's my purpose? If I'm only living life to make money and get love, that's not life. because there's so much more in between those paradoxes, those paradoxes.
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And this is why in the world there's war, there's segregation, there's prejudice, there's bias, is because a lot of people, most people, we're all wounded in ways we don't know.
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So our wounded self is coming through in different ways. It could be in our relationships. It could be in our speech. It could be in our posture. It can be how we look at money.
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It could be how we look at the opposite sex, how we look at people who are different.
Releasing Fear and Shame for Authenticity
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We're all wounded in a way we might not know. And this is why transformational work, healing work, spiritual fitness work is important because you're allowing yourself to get to the truth of your being, of your essence to figure out, okay, I have this, but I'm hiding this.
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So how do I bring this with this hidden version of myself together where I'm not dropping this, I'm bringing this and I open it up, right? And I can see it and I can look at it without judgment.
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I can love this part of me. ah won't feel shame or guilt and say, okay, this is where I'm at. Now I can get to the next level. That's it. We got big dreams. You have big dreams. I know you do because you wouldn't be watching this or you wouldn't be listening to this.
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So I want you to be big about the part you run from. Be big about the part you're afraid of. Be big about the part that you have so much fear in.
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Some of us, like for me, we have a problem we receiving but without resistance or receiving without giving something in return. There's a block there. I was telling my girlfriend, we was having a conversation about, and I'll finish on this, that celebration is the highest form of gratitude.
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Celebration is the highest form of gratitude. So in my life, I'm so good at celebrating others. I'm so good at pouring into people. I'm so good at giving and I'm excited about it.
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But when it comes to people being excited about celebrating or giving to me, ah shun away. I hide. I get small. It's like a dog with a bone and gets his food and goes in the corner. He looks around, leave me alone.
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Because my nervous system, my body is not fully expanded in a way where it feels totally safe to receive a celebration. Because unconsciously, what are you trying to do? what are you trying to get up over me? Or what are you trying to control or manipulate? Because childhood is where the environment I grew up in.
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The things I saw, so me always protecting myself. So when that's a survival mechanism, this protection, that's fear, it's not love, it's not faith. So I say all that to say, people, let's get to the root of our suffering. Let's get to the root of our being. Let's get to the root of our truth so we can move it through us and not control us. And that cloud of fear or shame or guilt is not controlling every decision unconsciously.
Conclusion and Call to Action
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It's bigger than me. It's bigger than us. This is for we. This is for the collective. This is for everyone who needs this. And I want you, if you're ready, because it's all timing, right? You've got to be ready to receive the truth that you don't like.
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You have to be ready to receive the thing that makes you uncomfortable. And sometimes crucial conversations, uncomfortable conversations or awarenesses doesn't feel the best. But when you just let it move through your body and you don't spiritually podcast that feeling, you alchemize that energy and you transmute it,
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And you gain more wisdom. You get soul wisdom. And that's what I received in that moment. And this is why I wanted to share it. So if you like this podcast and you think this was viable for you, share this, subscribe to the podcast, subscribe to the YouTube, subscribe like right now, share this.
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And listen, we're all one. Doesn't matter what's going on in the world. War here, hate there. We're all connected because guess what? Just like you can have all these great parts of you.
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If you don't bring the parts of you that you don't like, that you don't give attention to, it's going to affect you. Doesn't matter what you think or what you have or what you believe. It's all part of your entire ecosystem, your multi-dimensional technology, which is your body.
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And the body keeps the score and it holds everything in and you can push things out. So with that being said, thank you for listening. Spiritual Fitness Podcast, another episode. Share, subscribe, like.
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And don't forget to hit the show notes. Follow me on Instagram at Eric Bigger. TikTok as well. I'm a Threads account. And check out Simplify Impact.
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I'm out. Peace and love.
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Thank you for joining us on the Spiritual Fitness Podcast. We hope today's episode has inspired you and provided valuable insights for your holistic health journey. By blended spirituality and physical wellness, you can strengthen your body, mind, and soul.
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